Palestinians Submit Resolution on U.N. Status

By

Joe Lauria

Updated Nov. 26, 2012 7:21 p.m. ET

The Palestinian Authority submitted a draft resolution to the U.N. General Assembly that would recognize the Palestinians as a nonmember state of the U.N., a move that could have far-reaching implications for the 65-year-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

A vote is set for Thursday in the 193-seat U.N. General Assembly, the 65th anniversary of the Assembly's resolution that created Israel by partitioning British-mandate Palestine into Israeli and Palestinian states. The Palestinians rejected the resolution and war with...